This is a tough one and a topic that people don’t really like to talk about, but just like everything else in the Bible it is God’s Word and his word is truth and that is what I will go with. So instead of focusing on divorce and the effects of it, I want to focus on the beautiful relationship that God ordained called marriage. The part that stands out to me the most is that through marriage two will become one flesh. Think about that, two people will become one, and this was God’s design from the very beginning. Genesis 2:23-24 records the response from man after God created woman…The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. This is so beautiful to me, that this is how every man should feel about his wife and every wife should know that their husband feels this way about her. God’s plan is for us to marry and stay married. I know that things happen, but God’s plan for us is greater than anything else. It is not just that this is some rule he has made up, it is that he knows what is best for us and he is trying to prevent any unnecessary hurt that could come our way through divorce. Now I am no expert on marriage, but I do know from my own personal experience that marriage is not always easy, in fact sometimes it is downright difficult, but to me there is such a peace and a comfort to know that someone is going to be by my side no matter what is going on. While I am a very independent person, I still long for the comfort of knowing that my husband is not far from my side. I know that he will always take up for me, that he will always protect me, and that he will always love me even when the world doesn’t. My marriage is not perfect, but when we put God first in all that we do it sure does make it much easier.
One of my favorite scriptures that describe how I feel about my husband can be found in the first chapter of Ruth. I know that this is a daughter-in-law talking to her mother-in-law, but I gave this scripture to my husband on the day we got married and I just thought that I meant it then, but I mean it more today than ever before. You know my husband will probably kill me for sharing this, but I just have to (he’s not a reader, so maybe he want read this). Not too long ago he told me that he remembered thinking on our wedding day that he didn’t think it was possible to love someone so much, but now that love that he had for me on that day doesn’t even compare to how much he loves me now. You just have to know my husband to realize how powerful that statement is. I know without a doubt that he loves me, but he is definitely not the ‘mushy’ type. Guess he is loosening up in his older age!
But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.” Ruth 1:16 &17
Father, thank you for the gift of marriage and thank you for blessing me with Clay, he is a wonderful man of God, husband, and father who is so good to me and our children. I thank you for bringing us together and allowing us to grow old together. I will continue to give you my life, my marriage, and my family for your will to be done. In Jesus precious name, Amen.
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